The First Men in the Moon

London: George Newnes, 1901. 8vo, vi, [ii], 342 pp. Original blue cloth stamped in black, white endpapers, a little scuffing to the cover and joints. First edition, third issue preceded by the American edition and two earlier variant bindings on this edition. This book was originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901,[2] who called it one of his "fantastic stories".[3] The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites"... it has been argued that this is the first alien dystopia... (Wikipedia).
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